Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-01-13
NUMBER Ii.
PERSONAL AND iMPeRsonAL-

There are nincty-slx thousand
women on the Government pension
rolls Washington Star.
Mary Harper. q Cleveland .crvard-
girl, has inherited two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars from relative in
Philadelphia. - Cleveland Leadcr.
George X. Remington. "A leading
citizen Of Fall River. Mass. who re-
Gently died. carried lifr-insnrancc poll
cics amounting Ia over one hundred
thousand dollars. - Boston Hcraid
Pred Douglass told the London
Daily Nctcs not long ago that 80 far
from the negroes dying ont they src
increasing. At the time II the aboli-
ton of slavery there were 100000 ~
them. and hc calculates that there arc
now Z 100000
General Roger A. Pryor lately real
ired ono hundred thousand dollar. In a
speculation in railroad securities. Ho
came 90 New York soon after the war
without dollar In his pocket. aud now
has legal practice 81 twenty thousand
dollars year.-N D. Heraif
"A very interesting ceremony took
place In the Parish Church of Ccdars.
near Montreal. the other morning.
when widower. Charles Roy. was
married to Mr.. Pilon. a widow. aud
the son Of Mr.. Roy married M the same
time the daughter Of Mrs Pii0n.
Engineer Henry Moore. 81 the
Chicago. Milwaukee a ~, Pani Rail-
way Company. has received s30. 600 for
live-acre tract Ia Minneapolis for
which ho had paid ~ 800 about nine
years ago. lie is about a. retire FROM
the road and settle In Minneapolis.
Chicago Tribune.
Willie Hines, the scvcnfccn-year-
old son of "a wcil-to-do farmer az Wet
Point, Ga, elopcd with and married
Miss Nowsome, ten years his senior.
In order 10 keep his father from follow
ing him the young man smashed the
family carriage and threw the saddle
Into the well-S. LOufs Post.
The will Of the late Charles Franri.
Adams, OF Boston, makes one publ,
bequcst of ten thousand dollars to ihs
Adams Academy. Quincy. of which ths
grandfather Of the deceased was tbc
founder The rest Of the estate T.
equally divided among members ~ the
family. y.- Bosion Journal.
The New York 0raphfc says Allen
Thorndykc Rice wore girl. clothes un-
I'll he was sixteen years old. His
mother. who had separated from her
husband. thus dressed him for fear of
his abduction by his father. AZ the age
If sixteen he rcbellcd agninst tho
tyranny Of potticoats. and took 10 wear.
ing bifurcated garments.
The sons of Mrs. John Benner. of
81 Louis. a few weeks ago spoke o. her
about the birthday dinner they mean.
to give her on her ninety-first birthday.
Although In good health. the old lady
said: NO. boys. Instead ~ dinner
Il will be funeral" No attention ws.
paid 10 this. but soon after Mrs. Benner
began % fail. and just "a -he had pre-
dicted, on her ninety-Grst birthday her
sons assembled AZ her funeral ~
T. sun.
-1haddeus Fowler. who died re-
Gently ia Seymour, Conn. was n mo.i
prolific inventor. lie invented a nia-
chine for sticking pins in paper. for
manufacturing iron pins. for sorting
pins for making pins. head and al. st
a single stroke. for making needics. for
pointing wire. for making horseshoe
nails aud for stamping metal. He nlep
invented a reaping and biHdiug ma
chine and the 'sewing-bird m4ed on
ladies work table,. fie had little busi-
ness ability and died poor Hart}ord
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